Thank you to all our fantastic volunteers who act as donations hubs, to our hardworking sorting crew, and to everyone who has donated clothes, tents, sleeping bags, and more. A lorry-load of CamCRAG aid arrived in Calais on Tuesday 11th May 2021, and another lorry should be going to Lebanon […]
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Excitingly, Maggie and Sara (our new convoy coordinators) have booked a convoy weekend for 3-5 September. This is still only provisional as we have no idea whether it is going to be possible yet, but the youth hostel is keeping rooms for us and the warehouses are expecting us. Booking […]
Buy ‘unsuitable donations’ on our new eBay page! We get some brilliant donations – some are a bit strange, and some are definitely more valuable as re-sale items than they would be in camps. Donations have included wedding dresses, designer handbags, glamorous high-heeled shoes, impractical leather jackets and cool street wear […]
We are very grateful to Historyworks for including CamCRAG as one of the beneficiaries of the fundraising events included in their Holocaust Memorial Day. The series of events included an online poetry reading by Michael Rosen and a talk by Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke, as well as the mayor’s official […]
While the weather on Lesvos has finally improved this week, conditions for refugees living in the new ‘temporary’ camp are still poor. December and January brought storms from the south, with high winds and very heavy rainfall, interspersed by settled but cold weather, with night-time temperatures touching freezing and a biting northerly wind sweeping across the peninsula on which the new camp is sited.
The need for donations of aid in Calais is greater than ever. So, although we are all locked down again and can’t hold public donations drop days at the moment, volunteers have agreed to act as local donation collection points. From the beginning of February, you can email our donations […]
Calais Food Collective (CFC) are in desperate need of more tinned fish to help feed the communities they support. In December, CFC reached out to CamCRAG for our help, and we launched our appeal to raise £1500 to buy a pallet of 4000 tins of sardines for CFC to distribute […]
Despite a rainy start to the morning, the sun broke through and we had perfect weather for our Winter Fair in the grounds of St Giles’ Church on Saturday 19th December. We raised £1256.30, all of which will go to support refugees in Europe this winter. Highlights included a tea and […]
A big ‘Thank you’ to Jesus Lane Friends Meeting for their generous donation of £500. All donations go towards providing aid and supporting our convoys.
Over the weekend, a group of socially distanced volunteers organised the boxed donations for Calais – collected in Cambridge and by partner groups around the South and West of England – onto pallets. A Distribute Aid lorry will be picking up 35 pallets of donations in Scotland and Yorkshire on […]